Day One: El Paso, TX to Jimenez, MX [370 Miles.]
Friday: Well, I got ready to leave on the morning of the 14th, found I had two
nails in my rear tire and the casing was split (this tire was only 11
months old). So anyway I went to Team Mr. Honda/Yamaha/Suzuki and got a new tire ($228.00) installed and
was on my way about 2:30pm. Rode to Jimenez, MX and spent the night.
Day Two: Jimenez, MX to Mazatlán, MX [500 Miles.]
Saturday: Arose about 6:00 am, it is cool, about 45 deg F. Gased up and on the road by 6:45am.
Got rained on outside of Durango, MX. The first 70 miles out of Durango towards Mazatlan have really gone to pot.
Literaly full of potholes and in some places it is hard to even find any traces of pavement left. The last 80 miles is new pavement and a joy to drive.
Got to Mazatlan about 5pm on Saturday. No
rooms avaliable at the Tropicana, so went to the Sands and got a room for 7
days for a total cost of $152.00. Went to the Zone and had a great
butterfly shrimp dinner and visited with Alberto, the owner. Just after I
left in Feb. he had taken over operation of another bar, Harleys, about 3
doors down from The Shrimp Factory. It is called "Da House of Rock and
Roll" and play all the good oldies. The band that was playing at "Tonys" on
the corner when we were there is now playing 6 nights a week at Harleys.
They start around 8:30pm and play till 1:00am. Happy hour (2X1) starts at
10pm till......?
Day 3-8 Mazatlán
Sunday-Friday: The guys from MO. that were on their motorcycles were still there! I went
on some job searches and spent about 20 hours of the week talking to
various people about job opportunities.
Fridays,Saturdays and Sundays seem to be the busiest days. Monday is D E A
D.
It was in the high 70's and low 80's all week, with the lows at night about
69. It was great. Wednsday night it got real foggy. We had about 15
motorcycles meet at Harleys on wednsday night.
On thursday, I went to visit a friend who owns a restaurant in the main
part of town, and visited with him about 4 hours. Back to the room for a
seista and then to the Zone for more night action. About 5 bikes showed up
at Harleys. About 10:pm it started raining and the streets emptied out real
quick. Not a person in sight, the were all in one of the bars or went home
for the night. I waited for the rain to let up and then went to the room
about 11pm. About 8 of the bike riders and myself had planned to ride to
Guadalahara on Friday to a mororcycle rally going on there, but when it
started raining they decided not to go. During the day on thursday I had
gone to visit another friend from Montana (rides a Vulcan) who had been in Mazatlan
since October, he bought a house in Mazatlan just last week for $28,000. It
is a two story, 3 beadroom, 2 bath with a balcony just north of the Marina.
Great views of the ocean and the mountians. I met him Friday night at
Harleys and then we went around to some of the other bars. I called it a
night about 1am since I was going to leave on Saturday to go back to El
Paso.
Day Nine: Mazatlán, MX to Wilcox, AZ [900 Miles. ]
Saturday Got up about 5:30 am and packed up the bike.
I made one last pass thru the Zona Dorada (Golden Zone) and went and gassed up the bike. On the way out out town I went by the the Marina and took the northern route out of town that connects with the toll road.
I left Mazatlan at 7am and rode for 17 hours and spent the night in Wilcox, AZ at 11:30pm.
Day Ten: Wilcox, AZ to El Paso, TX [220 Miles. ]
Sunday I got up and left about 10am and made it
home by 2pm.